The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

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If any one in Indiana makes bet
by which another loses his life he can
be sent to prison for five years. This
is aimed at the chap who bet that no
sitting.-Detrott Free Press.
With the fares at five cents at all
hours, the net earnings of the New York
elevated railroads in three months have
increased $6.77S. This is not mag
nifcent sum, but it seems enough to in
sure a continuance of the rate.
Philadelphia is fond of fruit Three
steam fruiters are not sufficient for her
demands, and three additional steamers
have been chartered to ply between
Philadelphia and the ports of Jamaica
and Central America
While Captain Cameron, of Port
land, Ore, was walking on a dock the
other morning smoking, ball from
some unknown ri1eman struck his pipe,
carrying it all away except little bit
between his teeth. The Captain hunted
up the bowl of the pipe, swore roundly
at the unknown shooter and went home.
Squire Royal, the tax collector of
Taylor County, Pa, took out we'll
worn overcoat to sell to an old clothes
man a few days ago and found $3.50 in
bills rolled up in sheet of note paper.
The Squire is confident that the money
is his own, but he has no recollection of
having placed it in the pocket.-PhtLG-
del0Iaid Press.
"A Pennsylvania clergyman was re-
quested to insert in the marriage serv-
ice clause reading: ''And / hereby
promise before God and man not to
marry again in case my wife dies. +" The
clergyman refused, the would-be hus-
band Uttered, and the girl got mad and
walked out of the church on her high
heels.
DR.. Hainswald, the African trav-
eler says that in Zululand he met the
savage who killed the French Prince
Imperial, and told him that if he had
only taken the young man a prisoner
he might have got large ransom,
whereupon the Zulu wept with regret
and grief.
There recently died in Beverly
township, Canada, venerable wild
goose Thirty years ago Morris Shell
land bought it of Mr.. Harris, of Gait,
who eighteen years before that caught
it. How old the goose was when cap
tured, forty-eight years ago, no one
knows.
The sorrowful tree, fourishing
only at night, is singular vegetable of
the Island of Goa, near Bombay. Half
an hour after sunset the tree is full of
sweet smelling flowers, although none
are to be seen during the day, as they
close up or drop off with the appear
ance of the sun.
Newspapers are printing pictures
of two hands, each holding five cards.
The left hand has jack, ace and nine
of clubs, and ace and ten of spades; the
right the jack of spades, the king, queen
and ten of clubs, and the ace of diamods.
These represent two euchre hands, clubs
being trumps. The problem is, (Which
hand wins?" The question seems an
interesting one, though which hand
| leads is not indicated.
If young man falls in love and
| doesn't marry, set it down that he didn't
want to give up his free, easy-going,
| Independent life; to deny himself his
| wine and cigars, to be obliged to think
! for somebody else besides himself; in
short, to assume the burdens and re-
! sponsibilities of family man. The girl
he thinks he loves need not worry over
! his loss, not bit, for he is too selfish to
make her good husband-M ?. TTib-
U17e.
The other night some young and
foolish citizens of Reidsville, Ga, thought
to brighten a young woman by going
about her house with long white sheets
about them, but the young woman's
father let the dogs loose, and, in the
words of the Enterprise of that place,
lone spook had to 60 home and change
his pants, after he jumped the fence and
! getaway, while another was seen in the
vicinity of the house next day looking
for his hat and one for his chum' S shoes. "
"A writer in the London Lancet,
speaking of the ventilation of churches,
says: 1.-The hot air is almost invariably
admitted from the floor alone; and as in
sufficient ventilation is provided in the
roof, the hot column of air, which rises
as high as possible, presses down until
all the colder air beneath is excluded"
What must have been the education of
man of science who thus attempts to
show that the lighter fluid weighs down
the heavier?
Who would think the item of towels
and napkins cuts very considerable
figure in the expense account of a hotel?
1t does, nevertheless, and the cause is
not so much for wear as from sort of
evaporation that might go by the name
so ugly. A towel here or there, or
napkin once in a while would not seem
much to the parties wanting it SO badly
as to take it, but it nevertheless goes to
prove that the only sort ofproperty that
is quite safe is that which is nailed to
something. Hotel Register.
Oiled of Bright's disease" has be-
come familiar phrase in obituary
notices. 1t has become so much more
common that the general impression is